Ford Motor Company’s Lima Engine Plant, Ohio, has
won the bid to upgrade facilities to build the all-new 2.7-Liter EcoBoost
gasoline engine for the 2015 F-150 pick-up trucks.
Ford will invest US$500
million to support production facilities in the plant and create 300 jobs. The
plant will be the first to manufacture a gasoline vee engine with a compacted
graphite iron (CGI) cylinder block.
